SOUTH CAROLINA CHARLESTOWN

No Inhabitant of Charlestown shall be permitted to keep more than two male Slaves, to work out for Hire, as Porters, Laborers, Fishermen or Handicraftsman.

Send out of our state, never again to return, all free persons of color They form a third class in our society, enjoying more privileges than the slaves, and yet possessing few of the rights of the master; a class of persons having and exercising the right of moving unrestrained over every part of the state; of acquiring property, of amassing wealth to an unlimited extent, of procuring information on every subject, and of uniting themselves in associations or societies—yet, still a class, deprived of all political rights, subjected equally with the slaves to the police regulations for persons of color …. Restraints are always irksome The free persons of color must be discontented with their situation. The hopes of the free negroes will increase with their numbers

No Inhabitant of Charlestown shall be permitted to keep more than two male Slaves, to work out for Hire, as Porters, Laborers, Fishermen or Handicraftsman.

Send out of our state, never again to return, all free persons of color They form a third class in our society, enjoying more privileges than the slaves, and yet possessing few of the rights of the master; a class of persons having and exercising the right of moving unrestrained over every part of the state; of acquiring property, of amassing wealth to an unlimited extent, of procuring information on every subject, and of uniting themselves in associations or societies—yet, still a class, deprived of all political rights, subjected equally with the slaves to the police regulations for persons of color …. Restraints are always irksome The free persons of color must be discontented with their situation. The hopes of the free negroes will increase with their numbers